Universal Pictures

Universal has acquired the rights to a number of classic songs from Prince’s catalog and is developing an original film musical inspired by his music, using the songs to drive a fictional narrative. The film is not a biopic but an original story with Prince’s classic songs driving the plotline.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM When his plane is shot down over Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Commander John McCain fights to survive as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Story details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being pitched as a fresh, contained, high concept twist on the vampire genre in the vein of Panic Room and 30 Days of Night.

Remake of the original 1996 film centered around a young girl who is trying to protect her father, a recent widower, from his psychopath new girlfriend.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM The true story of Atlant hustler Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams, whose 1970 post-fight party, which was attended by some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, was robbed at gunpoint for more than $1 million.

A rookie FBI agent named Scott Lawson is assigned to the border town of Laredo, Texas, where he writes reports about the drug war but doesn’t get to do much else. Until he’s asked to check out an anonymous tip that a horse sold for a record price at an Oklahoma auction house.